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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2490 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #187 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 8
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 401 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #88 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 2
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 706 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #9 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 7
HS exam question - 1560 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #49 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat symbols in list - 1581 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #88 / 339
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fizzbuzz - 557 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 45
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #28 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 8
Substraction (bis) - 584 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #40 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 3
Poorly indented Python comments - 1307 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #55 / 219
  • Number of attempts: 12
Many duplicates - 1429 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #203 / 464
  • Number of attempts: 2
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #42 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 1758 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #201 / 544
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1250 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #44 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fix the shell script! - 2543 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #104 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 6
Visual block training - 1069 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #35 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 6
Innocent Monster - 217 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #18 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #165 / 555
  • Number of attempts: 4
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